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I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.
Joel Salatin
Mom
School
Every
Entered
Verbal
Contest
Contests
Forensics
Won
Essay
Skills
Inherited
Elementary
Elementary School
Ever
I swam a little bit in high school but I wasn't a jock.
Joel Silver
School
Bit
High
Jock
High School
Little
Little Bit
I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.
Joel Silver
Good
Sports
School
Evolved
Ability
About
Throw
Never
Sport
Because
Passionate
Frisbee
Did
Really
Fun
Playing
It was a hard decision to give up a normal job. I worked hard to get through school. You go from building a fire station to an eating contest.
Joey Chestnut
You
School
Decision
Job
Fire
Building
Station
Eating
Give
Through
Contest
Go
Normal
Up
Get
Worked
Hard
I remember going to see Billy Graham in a cinema in Glasgow, and he was down in London. I used to go and hear preachers, and then we always went to church and Sunday school. That mattered a lot to me.
Johann Lamont
Me
Cinema
Remember
School
Church
Sunday
Down
Sunday School
See
London
He
Glasgow
Always
Go
Hear
Lot
Preachers
Mattered
Going
Graham
Then
Used
Billy
Billy Graham
I was a decent 800 m. runner, not 400 - and I'm actually really proud of this: I beat the girls and the boys to win my school 800, so it was a big deal at the time; I was about 11. Then I won the district and made it to state, but I just never went, because I was training, and tennis was a big part of my life at that point.
Johanna Konta
Life
Time
Training
Win
School
Made
Girl
My Life
Big
State
Runner
District
About
Point
Beat
Never
Tennis
Part
Because
Deal
Boy
Proud
Big Deal
Won
Big Part
Just
Decent
Then
Really
Actually
You can go pretty much anywhere in the world, and people know 'Beat It.' When I was growing up, you heard it everywhere. I remember being a kid and going to school dances and stuff, and they always played it.
John 5
You
People
World
Remember
School
Dances
Everywhere
Kid
Pretty
Beat
Stuff
Know
Always
Go
Heard
Up
Going
Being
Anywhere
Much
Growing
Growing Up
Played
I started out trying to play more straight-ahead jazz. I went to Berklee in the early '60s when it was a brand new school, and so there was no fusion music. There wasn't a lot of mixing together of different kinds of music at that time, so jazz was kind of pure jazz.
John Abercrombie
Music
Time
Together
School
Pure
Different Kinds
Jazz
Fusion
Out
Kind
Kinds
More
New
Mixing
Lot
Brand
Brand New
Trying
Different
Play
Early
Started
When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.
John Baldessari
Art
School
Job
Would
Having
Having Fun
Had
Art School
Get
Just
Realised
Then
Fun
Last
Chance
My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well.
John Barrasso
Life
Generation
Battle
School
Gone
President
Spent
Ninth
Guy
Had
Pushing
Well
Does
Always
His
Wet
America
American
Grade
Quit
Any
Legislation
Wheel
Cement
Heavy
Want
Succeed
Means
Barrels
Dad
Fought
Now
I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery, and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.
John Barrowman
Class
Remember
School
Car
Our
High
Archery
High School
Gym
Parking
Parking Lot
Weeks
Had
Firing
Taking
Bow
Arrow
Lot
Up
Did
Across
Street
Two
Two Weeks
I was not paying attention during physics in high school; I was wondering if I was going to be cast in 'Pippin.'
John Benjamin Hickey
Physics
School
High
High School
Cast
Attention
Wondering
Going
Paying
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.
John Boehner
Myself
Great
Business
Soul
Heart
Waiting
School
Values
Become
Nation
Ran
Saw
Out
Jobs
Tables
Great Nation
Small
Small Business
Through
Tending
Poured
Had
Put
Name
How
Odd
Odd Jobs
Shifts
Heart And Soul
Office
Tavern
Bar
Working
Forward
Dad
Washington
Floors
Started
Night
Core
Core Values
I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.
John Boyega
Me
Training
School
Old
Big
Secondary
Drama
Secondary School
Drama School
Out
Put
Primary
Primary School
Since
Industry
Because
Been
Years
Trained
Did
Big Thing
Which
Acting
Thing
I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.
John C. Reilly
School
Club
Group
Member
High
Outcast
High School
Dungeons
Choir
Swing
Chorus
Among
Founding
Dragons
I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress shirts, dress pants, a tie, dress shoes... they stopped making us wear blazers, like, two years before I started there, so pajamas... you wouldn't even get in the front door wearing pajamas at my school.
John C. Reilly
You
School
Before
Shoes
Pants
Wear
Wearing
Dress
Only
Had
Allowed
Like
Catholic
Tie
Catholic School
Making
Were
Years
Shirts
Get
Front
Front Door
Stopped
Door
Us
Even
Pajamas
Started
Two
I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: 'If I'm an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!' Without having to go to four years of law school.
John C. Reilly
Me
Business
Law
School
Father
Job
Thought
Lawyer
Big
Every
Considered
Kid
Jobs
Law School
About
Having
Had
Priest
Dawned
Him
Parts
Without
Becoming
Go
Years
Lot
Get
Different
Working
Fun
Actor
Four
If they're trying to get high school kids to go to the D-League, I will be shouting from mountaintops saying, 'What is this going to do to a generation of kids who say, 'All right, I'm going to do this,' you get one or two years to make it, and now you're out without any opportunities. Who's taking care of those kids now?'
John Calipari
Saying
You
Generation
School
Opportunities
Care
Will
Say
Those
Kids
Out
High
One Or Two
High School
Taking
School Kids
Make
Without
Go
Years
Get
Trying
Any
Going
Shouting
Who
Now
Right
Two
I majored in business/marketing because I was going to be a teacher and a high school basketball coach.
John Calipari
Teacher
School
High
High School
Because
Going
Coach
Basketball
I sometimes buy albums that I don't like now, but that I know I will like. Coming out was the same thing. In high school, I thought, 'I know I'm going to have to deal with this, but I'm not confident enough now.' But when I finally did, my whole life changed.
John Cameron Mitchell
Life
Buy
Sometimes
School
Will
Thought
Same Thing
Changed
Enough
Finally
Out
High
High School
Like
Know
Deal
Coming
Did
Same
Going
Confident
Whole
Now
Thing
Albums
I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of professional film making while shooting of a number of rock videos.
John Carney
World
School
Videos
First
Band
Frames
Out
Joined
Dropped
Glimpse
Rock
Making
Irish
Shooting
Getting
While
Professional
Film
Film-Making
Number
I was bullied at school for my red hair; today I still come out fighting hard. I give as good as I get. In business, it's about finding solutions, not being rolled over.
John Caudwell
Today
Good
Business
School
Hair
Red Hair
Fighting
Out
Solutions
Finding
About
Give
Red
Over
Come
Still
Bullied
Get
Being
Hard
Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.
John Caudwell
Time
School
Job
Say
Pottery
Part
Part-Time
Journalists
Like
Doing
Off
Left
Just
After
Short-Lived
Sweeping
Floors
Started
By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.
John Cena
Time
School
Stronger
Everybody
High
High School
Gym
Stepped
Than
Just
By The Time
My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.
John Collison
Mom
School
Engineer
High
Brother
Born
High School
Both
County
Were
Math
Very
Irish
Trained
Electrical
Dad
I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.
John Corbett
Time
Class
School
Back
Kid
Pretty
Hyper
Student
Had
Attention
Call
Just
Then
Hard
Paying
Hard Time
Now
Disruptive
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